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Atlantic ADVENTURE! - Annapolis Boat Show & A few Other Surprises !!
29 March 2026 · 44 min · 4K views · Annapolis, Maryland
What this video covers
John attends the Annapolis Boat Show as a credentialed creator, sponsored by Bolt Depot, and covers several boats and marine product booths across the multi-day event.0:13
At the show, he boards a Passport Yachts Vista 545 — priced at $1.1–1.2 million USD — and meets Tom Wagner, who has owned Passport Yachts since 1982 and knows the designers behind the Liberty 458 that John is restoring (Antidote).4:24 He also briefly inspects a Swan 76 and a Neel 43 trimaran.5:22 At the Mantis booth, Philip demonstrates a redesigned anchor featuring foil-shaped wings at the rear that push the nose down in soft mud, a soft launch at Annapolis.10:36 At the ROAM booth, co-owner JD discusses the marine monitor's anchor-alarm system.7:04 John also visits Aitor, a Spanish industrial vibration-isolation engineer, whose Ellabogan engine mounts won best booth at the show; Aitor demonstrates live load testing using a 7,000-lb jack, having broken two jacks and run 80-plus tests on a single mount over the weekend.18:47
Away from the show floor, John helps a friend named John replace serrated band clamps on a generator install in the port lazaret, upgrading to 316 stainless molded clamps sourced from Bolt Depot, and explains why fractured serrated clamps on a shaft log are a serious flooding risk.16:32
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